“Local officials who abuse zoning authority powers to cower citizens into submission and deprive land owners of Constitutional rights in the enjoyment of their land must be subject to fines and actual damages they cause including attorney fees,” Delegate Bob Marshall noted in support of his HB 1219 recently introduced in the Virginia General Assembly.

Marshall introduced his bill in direct response to incidents precipitated by county officials who threatened Virginia citizen farmer Martha Boneta. Boneta gained national attention after she was cited and threatened with $5,000 per-day fines for hosting such ‘menacing activities’ as a birthday party for eight 10-year old girls without a permit and advertising pumpkin carvings. Virginians rallied at two “pitchfork protests” in support of Boneta.

Marshall said, “I am convinced this harassment will continue until local officials realize they can be held liable in the form of fines and other costs.” H.B. 1219 provides that local governments violating constitutional rights through zoning shall pay their victims (1) the amount of the fines they sought to impose, and (2) actual damages including attorney fees. Local government officials who intentionally violate this law would also be liable.

Martha Boneta said, “I am confident that I would not have been bullied by my county government had this bill been in place earlier, and I ask all Virginians to contact their delegates and senators to support H.B. 1219, which protects all of us.”

There is long-time precedent for remedies against government officials who abuse their power to violate the rights of citizens. H.B. 1219’s remedies mean Virginians don’t need to go broke protecting their rights on their own property.

In addition to authorizing private citizens to files suits for damages, H.B. 1219 allows the Virginia Attorney General to intervene on behalf of victims. It also provides whistleblower protections for government employees who expose violations of this law.

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This is a very common sense approach to stop infringement upon citizen’s property rights. I suggest you urge your local Missouri Representative or Senator to sponsor and vote for similar legislation.

For more than 50 years the Supreme Court and other federal courts have been dismantling and destroying the foundations of our once great nation. For most of our history our laws were based upon the solid canon of Old Testament laws. Now courts routinely declare Biblical laws upholding morality to be unconstitutional. Virtually no state legislature, nor Congress, can, for example, pass laws these days to prohibit abortions or homosexual marriage. We now live in a society where good, such as Biblical laws upholding traditional marriage, are considered evil, and where evil, such as laws allowing abortion on demand, are declared to be good.

When our leaders and highest institutions of law and government call good evil and evil good the people become confused and can longer repent of their sins and the evil deeds they find themselves doing. After all, our highest courts now declare many of those deeds to be good. How long will it be, for example, until pedophilia and child pornography are considered to be rights protected by the United States Constitution? It is for this reason that we see such pervasive lawlessness throughout our society today. No one is really safe from theft, murder, or violent sexual assault.

Today I received word of yet another federal court decision driving still another stake into the almost dead heart of America. Now a Christian cross cannot be erected at a veteran’s memorial. Read about it by clicking here.

I took many classes in law school concerning estate planning and have never regretted it. Since I began practicing law in 1989 I have prepared many wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney, medical powers of attorney, beneficiary deeds, and other estate planning documents. Every family’s estate planning needs are unique and it is important that you speak to an estate planning professional who understands the probate system and how to draft original trusts to meet particular needs.

I recently drafted an irrevocable trust in order to safe guard the real estate of an elderly married couple. They wanted to be sure that certain children will inherit their real estate and that the conveyance cannot be challenged by the other children who were not included in their estate plan.

Attorney Glenn Hall is an experienced criminal jury trial attorney. Yesterday a judge bound one of my criminal law clients over to Circuit Court for further proceedings on a felony drug charge. The prosecutor’s evidence is extremely weak and my client claims that the drugs found in the vehicle in which he was a passenger were not his. I believe him. I think the jury will too when my client gets his day in court!

If you are innocent of a criminal charge and you want to prove your innocence, then call Glenn Hall today at 573-729-2229.

Perhaps you were visiting Missouri’s beautiful streams in Dent, Crawford, Shannon, Reynolds, Texas or Phelps County and received a speeding ticket driving there. Or maybe you were fishing on the Current, Big Piney, or Meramec River and a Department of Conservation agent discovered you did not have the right type of fishing license and then issued a ticket to you. If this has happened to you, then call Glenn Hall at the Hall Law Firm today. Depending on the circumstances Glenn should be able to resolve your particular legal issues quickly and effectively with little, if any, lasting effect upon your driving or legal records.

When a court first issues a warrant for arrest for someone charged with crime they usually set a “cash only” bond of $7,000 or more. This means that when someone is arrested they will have to pay that specific amount in cash to the court before they can be released from jail. Most people do not have $7,000 in cash, must less more than that. This means that the charged defendant must sit in jail until he raises $7,000 or more or hires a good attorney to file court pleadings to reduce his or her bond.

The prudent thing to do therefore, when one is arrested, is to immediately hire an attorney. As your attorney I will file an entrance of appearance in your case and a motion to reduce your bond at the same time. I am usually able to get your bond reduced within 24 to 48 hours after you retain this firm.

I work with several bondsmen in this area including some who are willing to write your bond for as little as $100 down. For example, if the judge sustains my motion to reduce your bond of $7,000 cash to $5,000 cash or surety bond, then the bondsman will charge you a total of $500 for your bond, but you will be able to get your bond issued for as little as $100 and then make payments. This means that you will usually be able to get out of jail very quickly after contacting and retaining this law firm.

Call The Hall Law Firm LLC today at 573-729-2229 and ask to speak to Glenn Hall.

Glenn Hall of the Hall Law Firm LLC has been drafting estate planning documents for clients for over 23 years now. Glenn received his Juris Doctorate degree from Regent University in 1989. Until 1989 Regent University was named CBN University after its founder, Pat Robertson, and his very successful Christian Broadcasting Network. Since the law school was part of an active Christian ministry many courses were devoted to estate planning with a view to caring for one’s family and the ministries which had been instrumental in a person’s life. Glenn took every estate planning course offered while he attended law school there and hit the ground running, drafting revocable living trusts, private irrevocable trusts, and other complicated legal estate planning documents soon after passing the bar exam in 1989.

During my 24 years of practicing law I have handled a wide variety of criminal law cases. My cases have included everything from minor traffic tickets to rape cases. In fact my last two jury trials were rape cases wherein both of my clients were found “Not Guilty.” I tried one of those cases in Dent County Missouri and the other in Washington County Missouri.

I do not recommend going to trial on every case. If a client has actually committed the crime he or she was charged with, then I usually recommend accepting the prosecuting attorney’s plea bargain if one is offered.

I look at every case individually and then give my best advice to my client. If you need a good criminal law attorney, then call me, Glenn Hall, today at 573-729-2229.